Self-Discovery anda Sense of Wholeness in the Transgressive Auto/biogrAfrical Discourses of African American Women Writers  

作　　者：U.H.Ruhina Jesmin 

机构地区：[1]English Discipline,Khulna University,Khulna 9208,Bangladesh

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2022年第1期143-158,共16页复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）

摘　　要：The paper attempts to explore selected African American women writers'(Zora Neale Hurston,Maya Angelou,Audre Lorde,and Alice Walker)self-discovery,celebration of their selfhood,and sense of wholeness in their auto/biogrAfrical discourses.Instrumental rhetoricity of the autobiographers reflects politicization of black women's struggle,cultural(de)construction,and feminist/womanist(re)construction Instead of fitting into heteronormative discourses and aprocess of cultural assimilation,and of adhering to cultural codes of femininity,these writers transgress traditional norms of behavior Through autobiographical manifestos interwoven with self-defining identity and artistic transgression they powerfully assert notions of collective female agency and embrace their new-found identity as feminist womanistqueer.As an agent of awareness and proclamation,their(except Hurston's)powerful rhetoric is infused with their triple consciousness of being a black woman with African background and cultural pride.They illustrate an interconnectedness of racism and sexism which causes double oppression on black women.They boldly raise racial issues of universal significance,stick to their authentic selves,and reaffirm their agonizing black history/past as they journey toward maturity and wholeness.Their discourses reflect an interweaving of past and present,individual and community,and personal and political changes which lead them toward an esthetic paradigmof wholeness.

关 键 词：Auto-biogrAfrican discourse Transgression Self-discovery Wholeness Female agency 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]